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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2016
for fiscal 2016 rose 7.6 percent, year over year, exceeding our forecast by 360 basis points. Revenues at HBP were up nearly 7 percent from fiscal 2015, coming in higher than planned for the seventh... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Jeffery E. Sagansky: That's Entertainment
For most of the past 25 years, Jeff Sagansky has followed the same ritual every morning. He gets up early and pores over the previous day's Nielsen ratings, those omnipotent numbers that detail who's watching what on television from dawn... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Philip L. Yeo: The Next Big Thing
of Defense. "I enjoyed public service so much," he says, "that thirty years later, I'm still at it!" After graduating from HBS, and after more years of service at the Defense Ministry, Yeo was named chairman... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
think he respected me for it.” Fate factor: “Working for McKinsey in Tanzania, between my first and second years at HBS, was absolutely life-changing. It’s where I met Rukia Hamisi, who became a good friend; and when she was diagnosed... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Robert Kraft, MBA 1965
to be an extremely risky decision made by a sports fanatic, but in time it proved to be a winning business move. The decision to buy the Patriots fits a pattern that Kraft developed at a young age. He is a man who believes that anything is possible, and he is willing... View Details
- 10 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Vika Wasyliw
The HBS 2+2 program is a deferred admission process for current students in their final year of study, either in college or a full-time master’s degree program. If you are admitted through 2+2, you work for two to four View Details
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Amy MacBeath
calm and smiling, he encouraged me to raise my hand in class when I was apprehensive, cheered me up when I became frustrated, and inspired me to keep everything in perspective. I am not sure how I would have made it through the first... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
personal than honorific. This might be his most important skill: Ticket sales, LPO board president Long estimates, make up something like 25 to 30 percent of the budget, so securing philanthropic investment is imperative. On this front,... View Details
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Day in IFC: Meghana Dhar (MBA 2017), Japan - MBA
think of when you think Sumo! They performed extremely difficult strength and cardiovascular exercises meant to enhance endurance and mobility when they reach their peak weight. Some of the Sumo wrestlers were as young as 15 years old and... View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
Wiviott, noting that SFP can document up to 30 tons per hectare of carbon dioxide capture at its farms. In addition to capturing carbon dioxide, organic farming cuts down on demand for artificial, petroleum-based fertilizers. “This is the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
Photo courtesy Andrea Silbert As a child growing up in Brookline, Massachusetts, Andrea C. Silbert (MBA/MPA 1992) never hesitated when asked what she was going to be when she grew up. Like her parents, she and her three siblings expected... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
professional and personal—we need either to transfer knowledge we have built up over years of experience from our heads to someone else's (our children, a junior colleague, a peer) or we have the reverse... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 25 Aug 2021
- News
Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
high-achieving students and those who needed academic support grew considerably. A report from Stanford University a few years later confirmed her observations. “Chicago had made a lot of progress in elementary schools,” says Zaikos, “but... View Details
- 25 May 2011
- News
Singapore Star
School, not an MBA from HBS. “Oh, there was tremendous pressure put on me to do the MPA,” Yeo told Singapore’s Business Times (April 9, 2011). “At that time, the civil service did not want me to do an MBA. There was always the fear that those who do MBAs will end View Details
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
about these ideas. We gathered thirty years of U.S. patent data and wrote up some code that identifies the inventors and links them to each other for three million patents and two million inventors. Our... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
approximately $650,000 per share) are entitled to breed one mare per year to the horse for the rest of his life. Others must apply and if accepted, pay a stud fee of $100,000 for the 2005 breeding season. (Depending on the success of his... View Details
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Betty J. Diener Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
raised. I went back as dean of the business school at Old Dominion. Old Dominion's down in Norfolk, Virginia. When I was growing up in Virginia, it didn't even exist. It's one of these big emerging state universities that is growing by... View Details
- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
that no one else does” That's exactly what Cohen has been doing for the last three years in the MBA field course Stock Pitching, which he co-teaches with Christopher J. Malloy, the Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Financial Management.... View Details
- 25 Jan 2018
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Investing in India’s Nonprofits to Overcome Poverty Sustainably
N/Core project is attract smart, talented people and provide them the initial support, so that they can go on and create strong solutions to pull people out of poverty sustainably. “Nudge Foundation was founded about two years back. The... View Details
- 04 Feb 2008
- News
After Twenty Years, Rankings Remain Controversial
The School’s Centennial year just happens to coincide with another important anniversary, one many business schools would like to forget: the debut of BusinessWeek’s school rankings in 1988. Talk about disruptive. View Details